# unesco - Tuesday 22 June, 2021
# Unesco
# Unesco
UNESCO released a draft report on Monday recommending the reef’s World Heritage status be downgraded because of its dramatic coral decline.
# unesco - Friday 13 December, 2019
# Carnival Of Aalst
# Carnival Of Aalst
A float caricaturing Orthodox Jews with hooked noses and sitting on gold bags outraged Belgium’s 40,000-strong Jewish community.
# Strings Attached
# Strings Attached
The UNESCO announcement was made at a committee meeting in Colombia yesterday.
# unesco - Thursday 29 November, 2018
# More Than A Game
# More Than A Game
Ireland’s national sport has been recognised by the UN’s cultural body.
# unesco - Saturday 17 March, 2018
# Integration
# Integration
An expert has said better integration of asylum seekers and refugees must play a role in this process.
# unesco - Sunday 18 February, 2018
# Cous And Make Up
# Cous And Make Up
Countries are set to unite to win the delicacy Unesco status.
# unesco - Saturday 13 January, 2018
# French President
# French President
Irish uilleann piping was granted the same status last year.
# unesco - Thursday 7 December, 2017
# Unesco
# Unesco
President Michael D Higgins is among those to welcome the news
# unesco - Thursday 12 October, 2017
# World Relations
# World Relations
The move will take effect from 21 December.
# unesco - Tuesday 19 September, 2017
# Opinion
# Opinion
Deirdre O’Regan is 51 and in her final year of her degree. She went back to college after 30 years – here’s her story.
# unesco - Tuesday 1 November, 2016
# Malaysia
# Malaysia
He didn’t follow park regulations requiring that visitors take a guide, the police said.
# unesco - Thursday 27 October, 2016
# Weird And Wonderful
# Weird And Wonderful
RTÉ has released special archived footage for the UNESCO World Day for Audiovisual Heritage.
# unesco - Sunday 6 September, 2015
# Causalities Of War
# Causalities Of War
This week the terrorist group destroyed a 2,000 year old temple — but it’s not its first time.
# unesco - Tuesday 25 August, 2015
# Palmyra
# Palmyra
Palmyra’s was destroyed by the group at the weekend.
# unesco - Friday 22 May, 2015
# On The Map
# On The Map
Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, Heather Humphreys, today announced a fund of €13,000.
# unesco - Monday 1 December, 2014
# Congrats
# Congrats
The announcement has been described as “hugely significant”.
# unesco - Friday 1 August, 2014
# Falcon Conclusion
# Falcon Conclusion
Specialist staff from the wildlife service and the monuments service were on hand this week, as JJ Abrams filmed the latest installment of the franchise.
# unesco - Tuesday 29 July, 2014
# That's No Moon
# That's No Moon
The film begins shooting today, but will Jedi knights ruin a heritage site?
# unesco - Saturday 21 June, 2014
# Unesco
# Unesco
And you’ll want to visit them all.
# unesco - Thursday 19 June, 2014
# Reefer Madness
# Reefer Madness
The UN has warned that a “business as usual approach is not an option”.
# unesco - Wednesday 23 April, 2014
# Learning Rate
# Learning Rate
The report from UNESCO found that access to mobile devices encourages people in developing countries to read full-length books and stories through their phone.
# unesco - Sunday 13 April, 2014
# Valparaiso
# Valparaiso
The military has taken over security in the city of Valparaiso.
# unesco - Saturday 4 May, 2013
# Slap On The Wrist
# Slap On The Wrist
The UN says Australia hasn’t done enough to tackle concerns about rampant coastal development and water quality at the world heritage site.
# unesco - Saturday 16 February, 2013
# Afghanistan
# Afghanistan
Dr Bill Podlich took hundreds of photos while working with UNESCO in 1967 and 1968. Here’s what he saw.
# unesco - Tuesday 1 January, 2013
# Get Writin'
# Get Writin'
Three successful Irish authors will offer tips to budding writers through YouTube videos as part of the new National Emerging Writer Programme.
# unesco - Sunday 30 September, 2012
# Syria
# Syria
The damage to one of the best-preserved old souks in the Middle East was the worst yet to a UNESCO World Heritage site in Syria.
# unesco - Saturday 11 August, 2012
# Wildfire
# Wildfire
Meanwhile a blaze on the island of Tenerife has led to the evacuation of residents.
# unesco - Tuesday 3 July, 2012
# Unesco
# Unesco
Islamist hardliners in northern Mali have claimed responsibility for what UNESCO termed “repugnant acts” of destruction on historical sites.
# unesco - Saturday 30 June, 2012
# Mali
# Mali
Hardline Islamists have threatened to destroy all of the centuries-old ancient tombs in the historical city of Timbuktu.
# unesco - Thursday 28 June, 2012
# Mali Violence
# Mali Violence
We take a brief look at the explorers, including one Irish man, who tried and failed to make it to the fabled city, the one who finally did and the other who made it out alive.
# unesco - Saturday 9 June, 2012
# Made In China
# Made In China
China has a reputation for reproducing pirate copies of goods – but an entire village?
# unesco - Wednesday 7 March, 2012
# Road To Nowhere
# Road To Nowhere
An Bord Pleanála said that the bypass would have ben too close to the Brú na Bóinne UNESCO World Heritage Site in the Boyne Valley.
# unesco - Tuesday 27 December, 2011
# Your Say
# Your Say
Young people in Ireland are especially vulnerable to homophobic bullying, the co-founder of LGBT support group BeLonG To has said. Today, we ask if you have seen evidence of homophobic bullying in Ireland.
# Belong To
# Belong To
International conference hears that BeLonG To group’s work will be written into the UN toolkit as an example of how to tackle homophobic bullying of young people.
# Opinion
# Opinion
Most adults in Ireland can now be openly gay, writes Michael Barron – but the reality for young people is very different.
# unesco - Thursday 3 November, 2011
# Middle East
# Middle East
Around 2,000 homes will be constructed in the Israeli settlements in retaliation for UN vote to allow Palestinian membership.
# unesco - Monday 31 October, 2011
# Palestine
# Palestine
The approval from UNESCO delegates came despite threats from the US that it would pull US$80 million in funding if Palestine’s membership bid was successful.
# unesco - Tuesday 23 August, 2011
# City Of Literature
From The Daily Edge
# City Of Literature
W.B. Yeats was poor at spelling and Samuel Beckett was born on a Friday 13th…just some of the facts you will learn at the newly-opened Dublin Writers’ exhibition.
# unesco - Monday 8 November, 2010
# Italy
# Italy
A 2,000 year-old Roman gladiator house collapses in Pompeii – prompting calls for the Unesco world heritage site to be taken out of Berlusconi’s control.
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